Vodafone Australia is slashing 100 jobs from its call centre in Hobart, the same centre for which it received a federal grant in 2013 on the promise that it would be expanded.

Malicious attackers are taking advantage of critical flaws in the Drupal content management system, used in many of the world’s largest websites, to spread a script that mines for the monero cryptocurrency, a researcher has warned.

ASX-listed IOT Group has signed a contract valued at $190,000 with Royalti Blockchain Group to install global cryptocurrency miner BitFury’s Blockchain Hardware Solutions in the IOT Blockchain Applications Centre.

The Motorola Solutions hackathon will be staged for the third year in Melbourne this month, with public safety organisations including Victoria Police, Victoria State Emergency Service, Ambulance Victoria and Crime Stoppers Tasmania collaborating with developer teams on real world challenges they face in their daily work.

Smartphone shopping appears to be the new norm, with 69% of AR and VR users thinking AR/VR tech will "give smartphones the benefits of physical stores within three years" as smartphone shopping gets set to peak globally over that time frame.

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